Books + Movies + Music

What are you reading/watching/listening to? What do you think about it?

Date: February 26, 2006

Author: Robert Coontz (Administrator)

Categories: The Universe

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 26th, 2006 @ 13:11

Have any of you P.G. Wodehouse fans ever read Saki? He wrote short stories about Jeeves-era heroes named Clovis and Reginald, among others.

(“Saki” was a pen name. His real name was Hector Hugh Munro.)

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Zallie

in February 26th, 2006 @ 13:20

No, I haven’t. I’ve heard of him, I think, though.

At the moment, I’m reading Over The Wall by Garth Nix, which is really lovely. I miss seeing all of his Old Kingdom characters together, but the Lirael/Nick bit was really sweet.

Also reading Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody, which isn’t very good. I wouldn’t recommend it.

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HRH Queen Julietaini the F. of K.; Queenie (J); Juliette R.

in February 26th, 2006 @ 14:34

I LOVE SAKI! SAKI IS THE ZARKLESEIZURE! “Women and elephants never forget an injury.” I think if I was stranded on a desert island, I’d want Jeeves (he’d get us off), Wooster (keeps cheery attitude, Clovis, for company, and Reginald to keep me company, as no one else could be separated from one another. Or at least Saki and P.G. Wodehouse to play with.

I love:
LOTR, P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Tamora Pierce (sometimes, she tends to be a Mary Sue factory), Oscar Wilde, Thor Heyerdahl, Saki, Terry Pratchett, Kurt Vonnegut, Garth Nix, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Charlotte/Emily Bronte, Peter Freuchen, Sholem Aleichem, P.D. James, Studs Terkel, Frans de Waal, Elizabeth Peters and Sally Quinn, among other things.

I hate:
Rowling (Can you say “Mary Sue and Gary Stu”?), drippy teen novels with babysitters and designer clothing lust, and Louisa May Alcott (ditto, Rowling and Lou). Actually, lots of teen novels are the Jatravartid’s armpits. All 50.

I love foreign movies, like Mon Oncle, anything remotely connected with Hayao Miyazaki or his studio, and I hate Walt Disney movies and bad teen movies that have plot lines involving sports in any way whatsoever. Make a fencing movie, Walt.

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Sphinx

in February 26th, 2006 @ 14:36

Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde (How much ya wanna bet that’s not her real name?). It’s a really fun book, even if it’s not the best writing.

As for movies, the same as I’m always watching. NEWSIES!

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HRH Queen Julietaini the F. of K.; Queenie (J); Juliette R.

in February 26th, 2006 @ 14:38

I just went to the Hot Topics thread and saw someone (Zallie) mention the BBC TV show of Jeeves & Wooster. I LOVE THAT SHOW! All the actors and sets, including Hugh Laurie having too much fun playing Wooster, are fabulous. Aunt Agatha has too much fun, and except that whoever interpreted the stories for screenplay blended them together and wasn’t very true to Wodehouse, it was fabulous. Too bad Pelham never got to see it. I think he would have liked it.

There’s a rumor going around that Terry Pratchett is going to be knighted…I hope he is. The man deserves it. Do you know he has more fans than Madonna?

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in February 26th, 2006 @ 14:54

Nope. Never even heard of him. I’m reading Cat nappers also entitled Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen. I just finished it actually. Wasn’t somebody else reading that?

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Lusifer Ink.

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:13

WEll, I was just reading the first three books of The Belgariad, but Phoenix doesn’t have the other two books.

I am so dependant on Phoenix.

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kricket

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:16

has anyone seen Hoodwinked? it is soooooooooooooo FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lane the Orange Raisin

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:17

Who’s Saki?

Who’s Clovis?

Who’s Reginald?

Who came up with those names?

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Lane the Orange Raisin

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:18

no one is here. i am lonely.

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Lane the Orange Raisin

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:26

What does it mean, my comments are awaiting moderation?
*Gasp!* (Realization hits) There are no GAPAS!!! No Mystic GAPA powers, enabling them to post pictures and Pink Bunnies! NOOO!

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 26th, 2006 @ 15:53

Hey ykm, i just finished that yesterday!

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Lane the Orange Raisin

in February 26th, 2006 @ 16:06

Aak. Depressed. Help…
No one cares enough to post something in return to my plee.
Oh wait, I didn’t post one yet… Here:
I Plee that someone leaves a comment! WHere is everyone?

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Lane the Orange Raisin

in February 26th, 2006 @ 16:11

I am currently reading the Hobbit. Again. Again again. I love that book!

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 16:22

books! i luv:
books by eoin colfer (as some of you already know) ( yeah! )

tithe + valiant (holly black)

…theres more, just cant think of them right now
has anyone read the books by eoin colfer that arent in the artemis fowl series? lets see..theres “the wish list” + “the supernaturalist”…there might be one more. i relly liked the wish list

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 16:27

oh… has anyone read (or died of boredom in the middle of reading) the lovely bones? forgot the author…but its about this girl whos already dead + she watches her family try to track down her murderer for years + years but they never relly come close to finding him. i cant believe i survived through all 300-something pages, it just went on + on +on…
ppl were raving about that book @ my skool last year. guess thats when i learned the meaning of “overrated”

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Cedar

in February 26th, 2006 @ 16:36

PLEASE NOTE: THIS BULLETIN IS MEANT TO BE SOMETHING OF A MINI-ARTICLE FOR A FABULOUS MOVIE CALLED HOTEL RWANDA, ABOUT THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE.

Have any of you folks ever seen the super good movie Hotel Rwanda? For those of you who have never heard of it, it stars Don Cheadle, and is about the Rwandan genocide. For those of you who don’t know about the Rwandan Genocide, I’ll tell you what I know. In a place called Kigali, which was the capital of Rwanda, there lived two types of people. They were known as the Hutu, and the Tutsi. A scene from the movie, describes them.
QUOTE:

Reporter: “So what makes a Tutsi?”

Tutsi man: “According to the Belgian collonists, the Tutsis are taller, and more ellegent. When the Belgians were here, they used the Tutsis, to run the country. Then when they left, they left the power to the Hutus. And the Hutus took revenge, for all the years of repression.”

What on earth were the Belgians thinking?

Anyway, back to the big picture. The movie stars, as I have already pointed out, Don Cheadle, who portrays Paul Rusesabagina, an ordinary hotel manager, who worked at the Mill Colines Hotel (mil-coleen). Paul bravely sheltered 1,200 refugees, from the horrid slaughter, that ended the lives of at least half a million others.

The movie starts out fairly decently, with Paul and his good freind Dube, picking up supplies for the hotel. But then, a few scenes later, things start to go downhill. The first real atrocity, is when Paul and his spouse Tatiana, witness their naighbor Victor, getting severly beaten by soldiers, simply because he is Tutsi. The next day, Paul comes home from work, to find all his Tutsi neighbors hiding inside his house.

This supplies the foundation for the next atrocity, in which Paul and Tatiana’s son Roger, goes next door to check on his freind Simon. Paul goes out to look for him, and finds him hiding in some bushes, covered in blood. Paul scoops him up, and returns him to the house, where the family discovers, that it is not Rogers blood. The child actor who played Roger did one of the finest jobs I have ever seen, in depicting severe emotional trauma.

The next morning, the family and their neighbors, are forced out of the house by a band of nasty soldiers. They take them to the Hotel Diplomat, where Paul used to work, and maker Paul get the keys for them. On the way out, Paul heres gunshots, and rushes out to find Tatiana, his children, and all their neighbors, crouched in fear on the ground.

QUOTE:

Paul holds up the keys

Paul to leader of soldiers: “Please Sir, I’ve got them.”

The leader looks at the keys for a second, then slaps Paul hard on the face

Leader: “Traitor! These are Tutsi cockroaches!”

Paul: “Sir, let me explain.”

The leader grabs Paul by the neck, and walks him over to the pile of terrified Tutsis.

He pulls out a gun

Leader: “Shoot them.”

Paul: “Please. I don’t use guns. I don’t.”

Leader: “It’s easy.”

He blasts the gun above the Tutsi’s heads

They all scream in fright

The leader points his gun at Paul’s head

Leader: “Shoot them. Or you die first.”

To find out what happens, buy the movie.

WARNING TO THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY CONSIDOR BUYING THIS SPLENDID FILM: Hotel Rwanda is quite possibly the greatest true life bravery film, ever produced, but it is also very intense. The movie is rated PG13, but it should be rated R. There are sequences of intense violence, and scenes depicting almost unimaginable horrors.

The worst of these, is when Paul is driving downa misty road with one of his staff members, and the car starts to bounce up and down. The staff member stops the car, and Paul opens his door to have a look around. Apoun doing so, he falls into a large pile of human corpes. He looks down the road, and see’s at least a thousand bodies, snaking into the distance. The cause of the awful bouncing.

So this is a movie I would reccomend, strictly for people of 15 years and up. The movie has a fairly happy conclusion, considoring that none of the refugees at the hotel were slaughtered, but the movie is incredibly scary.

I hope you enjoyed this mini-article, and I hope at least one of you will go to your local moive store, and purchase Hotel Rwanda, a film which changed my life.

CEDAR

– Cedar often writes on the Muse blog, and you can find him on other various sections, including Ideas/Requests. He has also started sending Muse magazine letters, trying to persuade them to make a movie based on ‘Kokopelli and Company in Attack of the smart pies.’

PS: He would be delighted if other readers did the same.

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kricket

in February 26th, 2006 @ 17:35

hey emogirl. i’ve read The Supernaturalist and The Wish List … Those were really good books!!!

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Anata who finally got HG2TG and Februrary Muse

in February 26th, 2006 @ 18:52

Has anyone read Isabel Allende’s City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, and Forest of the Pygmies. They are amazingly good books. I partly got the idea of afareets from them.

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Jadestone

in February 26th, 2006 @ 19:16

YAY!!! We just got the book Polomys Gate for those of you who read the Bartimus triligy. Love books. Dont see to many movies.

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Sphinx

in February 26th, 2006 @ 19:27

I read the first book and got halfway through the second. They’re okay, not the best I’ve read, but still good.

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Jadestone

in February 26th, 2006 @ 19:35

Hayao Miyazaki is so cool!!! Have you sees Spirited Away?? That was such a good movie!! Hes a great directer.

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 19:45

#17: that was such a good movie!
#22: that was such a good movie!

this thread should be called books movies and musik

im gonna go to the random thread + see if 8th/16th notes are possible to make

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 19:55

no. this is pathetic. you need to make a section with all of the reacurring threads like ‘hot topics’ or ‘books and movies’ in it, so they dont keep dying. you can’t just keep remaking them every month.

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Violetfire

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:05

Cool! A new thread! Love it! How many of you read the Alex Rider series?

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:10

I think there are two separate problems here. One is that MuseBloggers seem to think that once something has scrolled off the first page, it’s gone. It’s not, as you can easily see by hitting the “Previous Page” button at the bottom of the page or by going to the Archives. The second problem is that popular threads get so long that newcomers won’t read them and it becomes a pain to scroll down to the bottom.

In the past, I have posted “Keep These Threads Alive!” notices with links to worthy but undervisited topics. Maybe it’s time to do that again. That doesn’t solve Problem Two, though.

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:17

you have a thing called ‘most recent posts’ so musebloggers can skip from thread to thread. please make one that says ‘reacurring posts’

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:20

Oh, I see–a navigational aid in the righthand column. I’ll see whether WordPress offers that option. It might have to wait until we upgrade to Version 2. (I’ve been putting that off because I’m sure some of my favorite blog functions will stop working when we switch.)

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:22

good books that you shall read now because i said so:

watership down
holes
the great good thing
heir apparent
running out of time
enchanted forest chronicles
more more more

combining books, movies, and music threads is a good idea. that was one of those phrases we are studining in english. english is taking over my brain.

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Violetfire

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:23

One: Why don’t you take away the February Issue-Have You Got Yours Yet thread and others like the Meet the Muses that are closed to comments and put one of the old ones back on like Ask The GAPA’s?
Two: Why not just make a second thread like you did with February Phantasmagoria and Hot Topics?

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Violetfire

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:25

That comment was reffering to #26.

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Violetfire

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:29

Why hasn’t Rosie been on lately? It’s just Bobby now.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:30

Good ideas. On a blog, though, the threads appear in the order in which they were created, with the newest one at the top. I can move topics temporarily to the top of the blog, but I don’t like to deviate too much from the natural order of things. Is it really so hard to find your favorite threads once they’ve moved to other pages? You know they’re there.

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:37

yeah, but it takes a while. you have to click more than 2 buttons. and someimes you have to do a search. and you forget about them. and you run out of time.

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:42

gooood gapa

fp is only loading to #321(@%*&%$!!!)(that glasses comment will drive me nuts the rest of the month. last month it as cattle guards) so i shall answer your question here:

haven’t been on sims in a while, (i was busy saving the world) but when i restarted after the incident with the stove, here is what happened:

r&r get out of car

r&r talk a bit

em adds stairs up to door

mailman brings paper

rosanne gets job from paper

carpool comes and rosanne leaves

robert gets job from paper

robert lies in the grass and thinks about barbecue

em tells robert to stop that

robert goes inside and makes sandwich

ebeth and mg arrive

robert goes outside and talks to mg

ebeth gets bored and leaves

em adds chairs to house

robert is distracted by chairs and goes inside to look at them

mg follows robert

mg eats roberts sandwich

robert makes more sandwiches and talks to mg

rosanne comes home

various people clean up and use the toilet an take showers in various orders

robert reads a book in bed

rosanne and mg sit in chairs and talk

rosanne has a breakdown because her enviorment bar is all red

em finally figures out that this is so because she forgot to put any lights in house and then does so

rosanne feels better

rosanne asks mg to leave

rosanne goes to bed

very boring, wasn’t it? but it was funny to watch.

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Violetfire

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:43

Hey, can you people do me a favor and help me with this autobiography I have to write? I need ten words to describe me. Please help!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:48

Ahem! Books, movies, and music, please. VF and Em: we can continue the discussion of the blog on the new Suggestion Box thread.

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:49

Violet

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:49

sorry.

the random threads not loading.

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Em

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:50

i think i may have overreacted a bit.

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Zallie

in February 26th, 2006 @ 20:57

Isn’t Hugh Laurie just FABULOUS? I’d watch House just for him, if I had the time.

I just saw him in Sense and Sensibility, actually, which is a pretty good movie.

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 21:39

W00T4MUSIK! THANK U GAPAS!!!

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 21:50

right now im listening to a cd simply called weather report. it belongs to my mom + i have no idea who the ppl are, but it relly is neat.

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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 21:53

-|—————|———————|——————–
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-|——3——-|———————|———————-
-|–G–4——♥———-O|———————-
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emogrl

in February 26th, 2006 @ 21:56

*attempts to sing praises for gapas* …..???

you know you can delete some of my mutated staff thingies i dont relly care

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Zallie

in February 26th, 2006 @ 22:36

I’m listening to Josh Groban and Harry and the Potters. Rawr.

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kricket

in February 27th, 2006 @ 05:47

I luv the Bartimaeus trilogy!!! i haven’t gotten the 3rd one yet though…

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Zallie

in February 27th, 2006 @ 06:52

I can’t stand the Bartimaeus trilogy. I tried, I really did, because I wanted it to be good after the disappointment of Eragon, but it totally wasn’t. Meh.

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HRH Queen Julietaini the F. of K.; Queenie (J); Juliette R.

in February 27th, 2006 @ 07:53

Lane, see the first post. H.H. Munro.

I really didn’t like the Bartimaeus trilogy, Eragon plagiarized theBel-whatever-it-is-on, and “The Lovely Bones” was terrible. I was so happy when Alex Rider died in the one book, he was SUCH a Gary Stu!

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 27th, 2006 @ 15:03

i have substitute by the who stuck stuck stuck stuck STUCK IN MY BLEEPIN HEAD!!!! arrrrr…great song, but after a while it gets annoying…

but i’m a substitute for another guy
i look pretty tall but my heels are high
the simple things you see are all complicated
i look pretty tall but i’m just back-dated, yeeaaaaah

Ah…fun times…

never read bartimaeus trilogy

lb over here watching ROCKY+BULLWINKLE MOVIE!!! YEAH! Totally cheesy but still…i’ll probably go watch in a sec. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH BULLWINKLE!!!

Right, now that you’re all thoroughly terrified and hiding under your beds, i’m gonna go watch some talking meese. Or rather, a talking moose.

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kricket

in February 27th, 2006 @ 15:18

what!! The Bartimaeus Trilogy was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! (why i capitalized that i have no clue…)

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Jadestone

in February 27th, 2006 @ 15:32

Its Fun To Copitalise Random Words. Any one read Ahrah the Windseeker? It makes a vague reference to HGttG.

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TigerLotus

in February 27th, 2006 @ 17:02

For those of you who enjoy great writing, I’d suggest these books.

1. The Land

2. The Queen of Attolia/ The Theif

3. Walk Two Moons

4. The Leering Man

5. A Wizard of Earthsea

6. Lost Forever

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HRH Queen Julietaini the F. of K.; Queenie (J); Juliette R.

in February 27th, 2006 @ 17:46

Ooh, I loved The Queen of Attolia/The Thief! It was really good. Very interesting, as well. Unrealistic, though.

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Jadestone

in February 27th, 2006 @ 18:36

Ohh, anyone read the books by Erin Hunter? The stories are told by cats(yeah, i know. But still…), and i got hoked on them in 5th grade. Not the best writing, but the new ones comming out soon and i want to finish the whole series. Did i mention the tittle?(scans post) No? Well its the Warriors series for any one who cares.

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Em

in February 27th, 2006 @ 18:52

the 3rd bartimaeus was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rrreeeeaaaadddd wwaattteeerrssshhhiiippp ddddoooowwwwnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

read to kill a mockingbird

read walk 2 moons

read bloomability

read life of pi

which i haven’t read yet. must do that.

watch to kill a mockingbird

and october sky

dont read a connecticut yankee in king arther’s court

its really depressing

eat pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noooww!

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Queen Julietaini; Queenie (J); Alternate Selves Rhonda, Stig, and Loki

in February 27th, 2006 @ 19:14

Do you guys like alternate history books? Do you know what alternate history books are?

Rhonda (Self 1): Of course they don’t.
Stig(Self 2): Yes, these froods are Musers!
Rhonda: Uh, has Muse even mentioned alternate history?
Stig: They’re HISTORY GEEKS. Doi!
Loki: Go on, label people.
Rhonda: It’s not labeling, it’s UH tribal grouping. That’s like, oh, I dunno, saying “Kikuyu” is a label.
Loki: Label.
Rhonda: Tribe.
Loki: Label.
Stig: Cut. Lookit, they know alternate history.
Rhonda: Why don’t we ask them?
Loki: Yeah, good idea!
Stig: Shut up Loki, we’re listening.
Queenie: I’ve already asked them. Doi!

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Em

in February 27th, 2006 @ 19:23

no. sorry. piz explain. now i is talking like ebeth. me thinks ebeth talks to much anyway. *is pied*

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 27th, 2006 @ 19:24

Alternate history? Like what would’ve happened if [insert random event that didn’t actually happen here]? Or something completely different?

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 27th, 2006 @ 19:28

*pies Em*

I know you’ve been pied already, but just to make sure.

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Em

in February 27th, 2006 @ 19:38

but its true. i find myself inclined to spel things like ‘relly’ rong, or say “GASP! OMG”

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lizzie

in February 27th, 2006 @ 20:02

Didn’t muse have a q&a about alternate history? Something about what would have happened at the Battle of Waterloo if Napolean had F15s or whatever the number is?

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in February 27th, 2006 @ 20:06

What a memory! You’re absolutely right. You can read the whole thing here.

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Violetfire

in February 27th, 2006 @ 20:16

I know a lot of you are HGttG fans like me, so how many of you read Mostly Harmless? I read all the others, but the library didn’t have it. Is it good?

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blue muse

in February 27th, 2006 @ 20:38

that would be so cool (alternitve history thing). if something in history changed and maybe it was so huge our world was completely differnt! like maybe no WMD’s or something! that would be so interesting to find out how it was differnt.

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Jadestone

in February 27th, 2006 @ 21:12

Ive allready read Watership down. Stop pestering me about it.

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 27th, 2006 @ 21:22

VF-Not as good as the others. Still funny, but the definitely a step down. Still, it’s douglas adams. What else is to be said? lol

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Em

in February 27th, 2006 @ 21:25

VF- same with me. shtinkin library.

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Zallie

in February 27th, 2006 @ 22:06

I recommed Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Trilogy for anyone who likes dark fantasy. ~~And necromancy~~.

On that note, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is also spiffy, but maybe for older people, because there’s lots of killing each other by torture, etc.

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card is also lovely. It’s a modern story, with lots of different folk-lore woven in. Even if you don’t like any of Card’s other work (like me) this one is really well-done. Not for the under 13’s of this blog, though, but still, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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kokopelli #2 (a.k.a. Mutt)

in February 27th, 2006 @ 22:45

Odd songs to listen too: Farm Fresh Onions, Religion, and Wish I. because Wish I is cool. 0_0 Wish I is by Jem. i don’t know about the others though

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Lusifer Ink.

in February 28th, 2006 @ 17:02

I Am Cow!

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Ebeth The Lurker

in February 28th, 2006 @ 17:23

Mooooo

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Violetfire

in February 28th, 2006 @ 17:46

I can’t read Watership Down yet because my Reading class is gonna read it for school soon. I’ve read so many of the other class books already that I thinnk my teacher would explode if she had to find me ANOTHER alternate book.
And Orson Scott Card is great! Have you read Ender’s Game?

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Jasmine

in February 28th, 2006 @ 18:28

Yeah, Ender’s Game rocks! Speaker for the Dead is kind of weird though…

I love harry Potter, and I enjoyed Heir Apparent as well.

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emogrl

in February 28th, 2006 @ 18:29

has anyone heard of the arctic monkeys + if youve listened to any of their stuff, is it good?

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Queen Julietaini or Queenie (J), and Alternate Selves Rhonda, Stig, and Ikol

in February 28th, 2006 @ 19:01

Alternate history is basically taking history (ex: Waterloo) and changing it (what if Napoleon won?) to make a story. See Muse’s Q/A, I have no doubt Mr. Coontz and Ms. Spector answered the question much better than I ever could.

Rhonda: Low self-esteem.
Stig: No, admiration for Muse!
Rhonda: Low self-esteem. Which is dangerous.
Stig: Wrong again. Read Muse.
Ikol: You’re both obsessed.
Rhonda: No, Stig, not me.

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Zallie

in February 28th, 2006 @ 19:31

I was all prepared to like Ender’s game, but the ending really ruined it for me. I mean…wth was going on there?

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Luna thinks she's a muffin (and no longer a cupcake)

in February 28th, 2006 @ 21:11

I’m reading The Inferno for a class. I’m enjoying it.

I’m also crawling through Wuthering Heights, because of Shoebox Project. (Any other Shoeboxers out there?)

~Luna

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 1st, 2006 @ 12:45

Do you people read much Orwell? I want to read “1984”.

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Ebeth The Lurker

in March 1st, 2006 @ 15:38

i’ve read animal farm multiple times (not sure exactly how many). Great book that. Haven’t read anything else by him though…

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Queen Julietaini or Queenie (J), and Alternate Selves Rhonda, Stig, and Ikol

in March 1st, 2006 @ 16:55

AF was killed by being read in class, and “1984” vasn’t haff bad.

Rhonda; Och, nae we’re German. Ven did dat happen?
Stig: I vish I could say “More than you can possibly imagine” at this point. Hovever, I cannot.
Ikol: You’re both crazy.
Rhonda: Boft.

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Violetfire

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 16:40

I can’t read Animal Farm either ‘cuz we’re gonna read it in class. I hate those people. They take what would otherwise be a perfectly good book and ruin it by making you read it chapter by chapter and doing all those stupid worksheets on it.

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Zallie

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 16:51

I read 1984 in eighth grade. Reading anything for school takes the fun out of it and this was no exception. I thought it was a bit overhyped, but a good book-idea.

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Zallie

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 18:00

Has anyone read At Swim, Two Boys or The Perks of Being A Wallflower? I’ve heard both ends of the spectrum and want to know if they’re worth buying…

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emogrl

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:19

the first time i saw the movie for animal farm i got kind of scared + almost cried (i was a little kid then -k-?) then in 9th grade we read the book + watched the movie after that + i laughed through the entire thing b/c im strange like that

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Phoenix

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:45

I just read some of the Sword of Truth series, and it was great. However, the author (Terry Goodkind) is very graphic. He doesn’t often describe battles, but he LOVES to describe what happens to the civilians who are on the losing side. The result: a whole lot of gore. Plus, the books are basically a statement on the witchhunts Feudal Church, so there is a lot of nasty graphic torture.
Also more torture not involving the Church, but ancient Paegen religions like the Incans and the Mayans and, of course, the obligatory Moloch-worshipper. But the book itself is AMAZING! And after reading it I started to go around wearing as much red as possible and braiding my hair at all times in the fashion of the Mord-Sith. Yes, I KNOW they are the bad guys and they torture people. Read the third book, when they are freed, and you’ll see why I like them. Yes, they reform. They weren’t really bad guys in the first place. Go read the books.

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Zallie

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:56

Terry Goodkind, huh? *adds to list*

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Jadestone

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:58

The Wee Free Men!!!

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Jadestone

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:58

A Hat Full Of Sky!!!

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Zallie

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 19:59

Mmm, Terry Goodkind doesn’t get very good reviews on Amazon, though.

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Jadestone

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 20:00

Mice!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( that has nothing to do with anything, but im weird like that. And HYPER!!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Jadestone

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 20:00

HIIIIIIIII ZAAALLLIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Zallie

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 20:04

Er.

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Jadestone

in March 2nd, 2006 @ 20:15

Er?! Thats all i get for my ~~well thought out planned~~(whom i kidding) spontanious HIIIIIIII?!?!?!?!?!

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Phoenix

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 05:31

Listen to the band called “Yes”. They are amazing.

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Ebeth The Lurker

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 06:24

READ SHADOW DIVERS! ME LOVES! Ok it’s a true story about these divers that found a German U-boat from WWII that wasn’t discovered before and they couldn’t identify it and yeah and then they did. And it’s just an amazing book, so go read. Completely true too.

And they give just enough of the technical stuff to let you understand, but not enough to bore you which is amazing. So many books just can’t do that-they either give too much or too little. I liked the level on this one…not a lot of it.

right so that’s what i get to go rant about today at lunch.

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Shadowfax

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 18:12

OMG! Terry Pratchet rules! Anyone else here a Potter freak???

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emogrl

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 19:40

speaking of mice, has anyone read the hermux tantamoq series? they are so (in a twisted manner) awesome. the three books (time stops for no mouse, the sands of time , + no time like showtime) are young-adult level mysteries, only the characters are rodents instead of ppl! the main character is a watchmaker (thats the deal w/ the “time” thingie) mouse named hermux.

does anyone listen to modest mouse? hehe…

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Duncan_Quagmire

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 22:07

(#98)

Yes.

No.

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Axa

in March 3rd, 2006 @ 23:48

Well.

Reading: I just finished “The Goodness Gene” by Sonia Levitin. It was quite good, in a haunting, the-world-could-come-to-this sort of way.

Watching: Pride and Prejudice. Focus Features version. The A&E one was more thorough, but his one has a not Colin Firth Darcy. Yes.

Listening: Yoru no Mukou ( Beyond the Night) by Asian Kung Fu Generation on the album Sol-fa. Gocchi is my favorite person in the world.

I do highly reccommend The Goodness Gene though, especially for history fans/science fans. Odd mix, but you’ll understand if you read it.

I hope that coding is supported by WordPress. -sigh-

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Shadowfax

in March 4th, 2006 @ 08:15

Hermux Tantamoq=good but weird…I mean, you got thisfemale mouse putting on lipstick. Do mice have lips? (I guess they do.) I’m being insane again.

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Dalboz

in March 4th, 2006 @ 10:36

reading:
Abarat
Pendragon: The Rivers of Zadaa

has anyone else read Abarat before?

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kricket

in March 4th, 2006 @ 13:00

oh you’re reading the pendragon series too? i haven’t read the 3rd one yet but i’ve read the first two. I rather liked the 2nd one.

Reading currently-

Pride and Prejudice
Moby Dick or the White Whale

Want to add into book collection-

Ptolemey’s Gate
Children of the Lamp Book 2

Want to get on DVD-

Ice Age 2
Harry Potter 4

Book Recommendations-

Harry Potter series
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Enthusiasm
Pride and Prejudice
Eragon and Eldest
Call of the Wild
Children of the Lamp
Pendragon series
Jane Eyre
Hobbit
LOTR

Movie Recommendations-

Ice Age
Incredibles
Harry Potter 1
Harry Potter 2
Harry Potter 3
Harry Potter 4
Polar Express
Lion King 1 1/2

Hated Books-

David Copperfield

Hated Movies-

Spiderman 1&2

… and i think that’s it

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Ebeth The Lurker

in March 4th, 2006 @ 13:37

I have to disagree with harry potter movies 1+2, and 3 is good on it’s own but isn’t harry potter. 4 was ok though.

pride+prejudice is amazing…

Guess what i’m gonna get today at the lovely lib…enthusiasm! yes yes. I shall read it. *ominous music starts* no, it’s probably really good.

Jadestone, i give u a ~~spontaneous~~ planned out hi in return.

HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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emogrl

in March 4th, 2006 @ 19:56

did you know theyre making a spiderman 3? honestly. the first movie was ok, but wvr the case, you can only drag something out so far…

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bulletproofmarshmallow

in March 4th, 2006 @ 21:01

emogrl, (reply to post 15) I am a BIG Eoin Colfer fan. The Wish List is my favorite book so far… I wonder what the new Artemis Fowl book is going to be like.

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emogrl

in March 4th, 2006 @ 22:27

wha… is there going to be another book after the opal deception???

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Zallie

in March 4th, 2006 @ 22:57

For Jadestone: Uh…er.

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Jessie (The Evil One)

in March 4th, 2006 @ 23:00

# 107

Doesn’t seem like it, but you never know.

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Axa

in March 4th, 2006 @ 23:39

The Spiderman series was quite long, I believe. And that’s the business.

Reading: Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata. Newbery winner. So much better than that horrid book about Deaparux or whatever than won previously. Though I don’t read in that agae level much these days.

Watching: Still P&P. My friend actually hosted me ( web speaking) yesterday, so I haven’t had the chance to watch much. The layout and everything works now though, so I can take a break! :3

Listening: Invoke- T.M.Revolution. One of the themes for Gundam SEED, I believe. It’s good in any case. The music video is a bit whacked out, but all Japanese music videos are. xD

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BlackRaven

in March 4th, 2006 @ 23:48

Kira-Kira is a really amazing book. The ending is sad but wonderful. (I seem to have a tendency to love sad stuff.) I won’t give it away since I have no idea how far you are in the book, Axa. It could be one of my all-time favorite books.
-BlackRaven

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BlackRaven

in March 5th, 2006 @ 00:07

Okay, now for me:

Reading: Fear Street Nights – Moonlight Secrets by R.L. Stine (very famous author). I’ve got to say that it is disgusting. At one point there’s this girl who curses all these people, and one kid (forgot the name) is kissing this old painting just to be silly, but he can’t unstick his lips and tongue. It’s in a bar, and his friends who work behind the counter try and slide some butter past his tongue, but it doesn’t work. Finally they pull him free, but — ready everyone? — most of his lips and tongue are still clinging, bloody and severed, to the painting. It is really sick.

Watching: Some really old movie called “Greed”, black-and-white, silent. It is so creepy (but I’ve got to tell you, I love horror movies, even old ones). This dentist is kissing his patient, and then he marries her, but it turns out she’s a miser who has $15,000,000 but won’t lend her husband a nickel for the bus when it’s pouring outside. Eventually he beats her up and runs away to Death Valley with the money, and is on the most wanted list. And the woman (who’s actress has the coolst nam, Zatsu) goes crazy and has these weird, creepy flashbacks about scrawny arms grabbing at gold. I am completely freaked out.

Listening to: The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow. They are a GREAT band with heart and meaning, and they’ll change your life. They’re helping me become a better, less depressed person (I think). They are fun to listen to, but for those of you who meditate with music (like me) they are awesome to have playing in the background. One thing I know is that The Shins have helped me with chakras. Rock on!

To comment on the Harry Potter movies: They’re all good as movies, but none of them could match up with the books. And the thing I really hated about the fourth movie is that it seemed like there was a small romantic relationship between Harry and Hermione. That will NEVER be. It was strange, and the emotions in that movie kept flooding over each other.

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BlackRaven

in March 5th, 2006 @ 00:09

Oh yeah — Jadestone, I LOVE Erin Hunter’s books.

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Shadowfax

in March 5th, 2006 @ 08:43

To TOTALLY agree with blackraven, the worst thing about the movies is that Hermione’s part is SO PLAYED DOWN!! She’s either portrayed as someone who’s not exceptionally smart, or she’s portrayed as a horribly bossy know-it-all. The movies don’t give her NEARLY enough credit!! (Can you tell I’m a girl?)

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Shadowfax

in March 5th, 2006 @ 08:44

By the way, Dalboz, I HAVE read Abarat. Did you read the 2nd one?

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Duncan_Quagmire

in March 5th, 2006 @ 11:31

Reading:
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (Clive Barker)
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot)
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
Peter and the Starcatchers (Dave Barry & Ridley Peterson)
Small Steps (Louis Sachar)
Hitchhiker’s trilogy (Douglas Adams)

Listening:
Les Miserables (Original London Cast)
Hairspray (Original Broadway Cast)
Peter Pan (Original Broadway Cast — Mary Martin > Cathy Rigby)
“X & Y” (Coldplay)
“Reset EP” (MuteMath)
“Chaotic Resolve” (Plumb)
“The Listening LP” (The Listening)
“They’re Only Chasing Safety” (UnderOath)
“Collide” (Skillet)
“Hide Nothing” (Further Seems Forever)
“Beneath Medicine Tree” (Copeland)

Watching:
24
To Kill a Mockingbird
Monk
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Bye Bye Birdie
MacGyver

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emogrl

in March 5th, 2006 @ 12:35

2 best movies ive seen this winter:

memoirs of a geisha (cant wait to actually read the book)
underworld evolution (yes! blood + violence! + more blood! hisss)

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emogrl

in March 5th, 2006 @ 12:35

+ has anyone seen triston+ isolde. if so, is it a good movie?

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kricket

in March 5th, 2006 @ 13:03

Oh i’ve read Peter and the Starcatchers!!! that was such a good book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listening-
High School Musical CD
other songs that i don’t feel like mentioning

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Zallie

in March 5th, 2006 @ 14:20

Tristian and Isolde was alright. I wasn’t emotionally attatched to either of them, and the romance between them sort of happened overnight. It was your classic ‘men with swords fight over women’ kind of movie.

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emogrl

in March 5th, 2006 @ 17:00

oh, so not relly worth spending $7 for the ticket…oh well

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emogrl

in March 5th, 2006 @ 17:10

mrahr! more musik from the dark side! some of you might have heard this one before. i luv it b/c it seems absolutely charged w/ misery + other emotion
my immortal im so tired of being here. suppressed by all my childish fears. and if you have to leave, i wish that you would just leave. b/c you presence still lingers here-and it wont leave me alone ***these wounds dont seem to heal. this pain is just too real. theres just too much that time cannot erase. when you cry i wipe away all of your tears. when you scream i fight away all of your fears. and ive held your hand for all of these years. but you still have all of me.*** you used to captivate me by your resonating light. now im bound by the life you left behind. your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams. your voice it chased away all the sanity in me... *** ive tried so hard to tell myself that your gone. but though youre still w/ me, ive been alone all along
***

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in March 5th, 2006 @ 18:12

Kricket, I absolutely have to know what you liked about The Call of the Wild. That is probably my most hated book to date.

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kricket

in March 5th, 2006 @ 19:22

okaaaaay…

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defcon pilot

in March 5th, 2006 @ 21:54

ICE HUNT, by James Rollins. My favorite novel trilogies are Star Wars and Allen Steele’s Coyote.

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Ebeth The Lurker

in March 6th, 2006 @ 15:44

Call of the wild’s not bad. why exacatively do you hate it ykm?

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 6th, 2006 @ 18:07

I like books! I just finished reading Hoot in school today. And I’m also reading the Bartimaeus trilogy, if you’ve ever heard of it.

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Axa

in March 6th, 2006 @ 22:30

Kira-kira was sad. The most horribly sad book ever is STILL Charlotte’s Web, I cryed to death in second grade from that. Dang ungrateful pig.

Listening: Utada Hikaru- Keep Tryin’ Very nice song, but the music video is kind of creepy. O.o Of course, her husband, who happens to be the director of this video was the genius who brought us the scary bright colored sugar bubble that was the Traveling video. Yeah, okay, I’ll stop with the random Japanese music refrences.

Reading: Mmm, nothing much. Pride and Prejudice fanfiction. The good ones. I admit I like the 2005 version of the movie better. No it’s not because of Matthew MacFadyn. -coughcough-
I suppose they’re different, but the new one doesn’t feel so..old. Even though it’s only about ten years old. Whatver,

Watching: Harry Potter/Howl’s Moving Castle as of tommorow! Wheeeeeee! I love Cedric like you don’t even KNOW. I was crying so much at the midnight show at that part. ;____; Poor, poor, sexy child. -sniff-

And as a note, BlackRaven, Zatsu means rough or crude in Japanese. -is half, and telling you all just because-

Yes.

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 6th, 2006 @ 23:28

Did anyone think that the oscars were worse than last year, which were worse that last year, which were worse that last year, which were worse that last year, which were worse that last year, which were worse that last year, which were worse that last year, until they were finally good? I did.

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bulletproofmarshmallow

in March 7th, 2006 @ 09:00

(reply to 107) The next book will be titled The Lost Colony and is about the eighth family of fairies (the demons) that got on an island (posibbly the bermuda triangle) and removed it from time when they were defeated by the mud people. Now they’re coming back because the spell is wearing off and they might pass valuble fairy information information to the humans because they’re popping up everywhere when the spell wears off.

Or something like that.

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Darth Yoda

in March 7th, 2006 @ 14:10

where’d you find that out?

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Ryan B. (The Bev)

in March 7th, 2006 @ 14:51

Who likes ACDC? Anyone? Or am I alone on this just like everything else?

(And yes, anyone who doesn’t want to waste time should be here instead of watching the oscars)

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embrace_your_poison

in March 7th, 2006 @ 17:18

Movies: Well, the last one I watched was Pride And Prejudice (yes, the new one.). ’twas good…if sappy to the max…
And I just bought -dun dun dun- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! (Don’t kill me plzkthnx.) As well as Howl’s Moving Castle, and that makes me exceedingly happy because I was just about ready to crack and buy the bootleg version. -shock and horror-

Books: One Hundred Years Of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Nobel Prize winning author! He’s quite excellent, but his books are not for the kiddies.

Music: I’m currently struggling to control a rampant Dir En Grey obsession.

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Axa

in March 7th, 2006 @ 19:35

-gaspgaspgasp- I smell jrock. I know of Dir en Grey, but I never was a heavy jrock fan, lighter sounds. ‘Cept for L’arc, cause they rock.

Watching: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Dan=Yes.

Books: Still nothing. =_= We’re going to read The Wave in my Leadership class though.

Music: No Regret Life- Nakushita Kotoba ( Lost Words)
I love that band. I can only find two other songs of their’s. Melody and Ano hi no Mirai ( The future that day/ that day’s future)

I need some T.M Revolution over here, I tell you.

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 7th, 2006 @ 22:09

I can’t wait to read that Lost colony book I read about on this blog. I like the other books too.

I compose my own music. I have a mac, and It came with this Garage band program. It’s fun. And then I bought this orchestra pack, so now I have all these horns and timinies.

anways, I also like Crooked teeth, by Death Cab For Cutie.

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embrace_your_poison

in March 8th, 2006 @ 14:43

Garage Band and Death Cab For Cutie= …God…

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frankenfaerie

in March 8th, 2006 @ 16:40

wow. i just found this thread. and i’ve read most of this stuff.
i seriously love you people. in a platonic way.

1-saki…sounds familiar

2- great book…i am a huge garth nix fan

15- wow. me too.

106/107- another af book?!? *rejoices*

102-the abarat books were great. just so different, in a good way. when does the next book come out?

122-hey i can play that on the piano

has anyone read His Dark Materials Trilogy (sp?) by Pullman? it was AMAZING.

i’ve gotten into Cradle of Filth, thanks to one of my friends. metal with meaning. that’s just too great!

my cousin sends me this sweet french rock. i like it, it sounds good. but i barely understand it…

reading? did the paperback edition or Rebel Angels by Libba Bray come out yet? A Great And Terrible Beauty was soooo good.

did anyone read the farsala trilogy? it’s really well-done!

or anything by patricia cornwell, namely her scarpetta novels? i really want to be a ME so i’m a bit obsessed with her work…

or The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler place by E.L. Konigsburg? great book.

or anything by Amelia Altwater-Rhodes?

ok im typing waaaay too much here. *submit*

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Violetfire

in March 8th, 2006 @ 17:40

I’ve read most of those too. Except for The Wave and Watership Down, both of which I really want to read but can’t because I’m gonna have to read them for school. I hate how teachers take perfectly good books and turn them into torture by making you read them chapter by chapter and answer all those horrible questions……. ’tis torture!

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emogrl

in March 8th, 2006 @ 18:46

almost every morning, ill walk into choir, + someone will be playing my immortal. its such a beautiful song

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flying circus

in March 9th, 2006 @ 12:36

has anyone read the scott adams book god’s debris or the sequel the religion war?

p.s. if you’re under 14, i would not suggest reading them.

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kricket

in March 9th, 2006 @ 15:26

i’m under 14. what are they about?

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BlackRaven

in March 9th, 2006 @ 21:42

Reading- Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey. AWESOME!!!! but not as good as Amphigorey (the first one).

Watching- Dracula. Creepy but my sister’s ruining it by complaining about how scared she is.

Listening to- The Shins, “Oh, Inverted World : : Girl on the Wing”

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defcon pilot

in March 10th, 2006 @ 03:39

OK, I finished Ice Hunt. D**n good… But so much bloodshed, death, violence… Of course, that’s usually in any book I read, so…

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flying circus

in March 10th, 2006 @ 07:55

they’re about god, in a really weird way. it’s not like he talks about rated R stuff, but it’s really deep and hard to get. i had to read it a few times to fully understand it, and it’s really deep writing for the guy who creaded dilbert. also, it might be a little weird if you’re completely devout to a religion… i guess it’s for all the people that are into different theories on the nature of reality and an all powerful being.

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Otzi

in March 10th, 2006 @ 17:50

Being the history fanatic that i am, I am reading about….GUESS WHAT….HISTORY!!!!
The journals of Lewis and Clark are actually HILARIOU. They spelled really badly, though (Clark spelled ‘Misquito’ 27 different ways) so get an edited version if you can.
Did you know that Lewis got shot in the tush by a one-eyed, near-sighted French fiddler named Cruzatte?

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Darth Yoda

in March 10th, 2006 @ 20:39

Again I’ll say it it (and this time i’ll make sure i post in the right thread)
Three words: Blue Man Group

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Otzi

in March 10th, 2006 @ 23:27

Blue man who?
Johnny Cash!

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100% cotton

in March 11th, 2006 @ 10:46

the thief was pretty good, especially considering we had to read it for school. love: 1984, farenheit 451, feed, the diary of pelly d, batimaes trilogy, gatering blue, the giver, messenger, a girl named disaster, habbibi + naomi shihab nye writes excellent poems. oh yeah, sabriel trilogy & his dark materials trilogy also pretty good.

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Darth Yoda

in March 11th, 2006 @ 10:56

It’s an Awesome band!!!

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Violetfire

in March 11th, 2006 @ 11:04

No, no, no. Blue Man Group is an entertainment thing. There are three “Blue Men” and they perform. it’s awesome. I like the Twinkie part.

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Darth Yoda

in March 11th, 2006 @ 11:07

I’ve read about half of those and they’re very good

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flying circus

in March 11th, 2006 @ 11:21

#148 I just read 1984… it kinda creeped me out, though i can imagine it would be a lot creepier if it was named 2084… or some year that hasn’t happened yet.
That’s kinda what the Religion War is about, only not. It’s the final face-off between muslim forces in the east and christian forces in the west…. but the smartest man in the world is trying to stop the war… oh, it’s good.

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Darth Yoda

in March 11th, 2006 @ 11:32

Yes, they paint themselves blue

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in March 11th, 2006 @ 12:09

I just got The Princess Bride out of the library. W00T! So far: better than the movie. True love is the best thing in the world! Except for cough drops.

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flying circus

in March 11th, 2006 @ 12:33

good author: terry pratchett.
is anyone else a discworld fan?
if not, you will be as soon as you read one of the books.

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Queen Julietaini; Queenie (J); WDNT

in March 11th, 2006 @ 12:40

What is so special about Mercedes Lackey? There isn’t a good battle until halfway through the book, the writing is lackluster, and let’s face it, the characters are cliche beyond belief.

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Em

in March 11th, 2006 @ 20:24

THANK YOU QUEEN J!!!!!!!

Last night, I read The Giver. it was Beautiful. I cried. And people, I don’t cry over books. The only recorded incident of me crying over a book before this was when Rachel died, and after about 6,000 pages, you would too. I almost cried over Root. But this book was really good. The whole thing… it just blew me away. Most people, if they wrote that book, would have given a sort of sinister quality to the Community, or evil masterminds, or something, but the whole conflict came from the ignorance that everybody had, and their lack of strong feelings, and it just blew me away.

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Em

in March 11th, 2006 @ 20:27

i loved the princess bride. i thought all that stuff in the beginning was true, though. thank you ebeth (i think it was ebeth) that’s not particularily suprising, beause i also thought ‘shadow of the past’ was true . im usually not that gullible. trust me.

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Jadestone

in March 11th, 2006 @ 20:43

157- You should read Gathering Blue. And after that Messenger, which ties The Giver and Gathering Blue together.

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 11th, 2006 @ 23:22

Yeah Bartimaeus trillogy, um, uh, 100% Cotton? Well, call yourself what you will, but that’s besides the point. I’m reading the third in the trilogy.
Has anyone read the oustiders. My moms was an English teacher, and she’s never heard of it, but it’s supposed to be a famous book. I read it in school. I’m gonna write my own book someday.

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 11th, 2006 @ 23:23

I meant mom, not moms. I only have one mom. Maybe I should reread these things when I’ m done writing them.

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frankenfaerie

in March 12th, 2006 @ 10:00

blue man group! yesssssssss! i love them!

the giver was an amazing book….

seriously, read something by h.p. lovecraft….it’s some great horror.

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Violetfire

in March 12th, 2006 @ 10:55

anyone seen War of the Worlds? I cried at that. It wasn’t the aliens. I knew that they’d die. It was how the people acted when they thought everyone was going to die. You know, when they were fighting over the car and climbing over the ferry? It was just scary.

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Dragon eye

in March 12th, 2006 @ 11:09

The giver was soooooooooo awsome!!!!!! Do you know if Jonah died at the very end of the book. Some say he lived. It would be really wierd if the main character died, but maybe that was what Jonah wanted.

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Jadestone

in March 12th, 2006 @ 11:30

I think he became part of the forest. The Bartimus triligy was VERY good. And now to make yyou all screem with jelously.

I saw Wicked and Blue Man Group through school. All the fine arts groups(drama, band, choir, art club) got a chance to go. So. Cool. It was FUN!!!

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Dragon eye

in March 12th, 2006 @ 12:01

Have any of you guys read the warriors series? It’s awsome.
So is the giver, the Bartemeuas trilogy, dragonology, egyptology, and wizrdology. the thief lord was really cool, but it got boring. then there’s the pendragon series. do you guys get bored of books because the badguy isn’t scary enough. If so read pendragon!! : 7 ) LOok at the :7) sideways and you’ll see a smiley face.

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Jadestone

in March 12th, 2006 @ 12:41

OMG I LOVE the Warriors serries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait for the next one…. Ive got it on hold… See post 55.

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Otzi

in March 12th, 2006 @ 13:52

aahh….Movies:
Walk the line
Bride and predudice
Ive heard Brokeback Mountain is pretty good……Did you know Heath Ledger’s wife totally flipped out when she saw him kissing a man on the screen?
(well, I probably would, too….)

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flying circus

in March 12th, 2006 @ 14:42

#168 I saw Brokeback Mountain… oh my goodness, it was an amazing movie. a lot of people think it’s just about the gay thing, but it’s not… it’s about loving someone when society doesn’t accept it. that’s also one of the two movies i’ve cried from. other one was Edward Scissorhands. ahh it’s so beautiful.
Bride and Prejudice is amazing. i love the scene in the market when they just start dancing out of nowhere.

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frankenfaerie

in March 12th, 2006 @ 15:10

163- i saw the olde one. not the tom cruise one. i do not like tom cruise.

169-edward scissorhands was soooo sad. i didn’t cry, though i came close. i also almost cried at the end of ladder 49. but i’ve never actually cried from a book or movie…sadly, i didn’t get to see brokeback mountain.

has anyone ever seen the blues brothers? it’s hillarious…and musical! “we get both kinds of music here–country AND western!” “we’re on a mission from God” and of course the hair salon, “curl up and dye”

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in March 12th, 2006 @ 15:13

Bride and Prejudice? Is that a typo or some weird combination of Princess Bride and Pride and Prejudice? Or something else?

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frankenfaerie

in March 12th, 2006 @ 15:50

no bride and prejudice is not a typo…..i haven’t seen it but my friend tells me it’s about a bunch of indian girls getting married to caucasian guys…. i hope she’s right

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Em

in March 12th, 2006 @ 20:24

jonas. i’m pretty sure he died. remember how he felt that Elsewhere was where he had been heading his whole life? well i guess it’s kind of depressing to think that everybody is headed towards death, but it didn’t seem that sad. i loved how in the end he heard the music in front of him, and the fainter music behind him, like there was music in the world, like there was hope?

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FantasyFan?!?!

in March 12th, 2006 @ 21:11

i am reading the dragonriders of pern series by Anne McCaffrey
i like them but i like nearly all books esp. fantasy and some s.f. this series is good if you like dragon books OR any s.f. & fantasy
(s.f. stands for science fiction) there are more than 16 books in the series so lots of good reading for me Todd McCaffrey annes son has also written for the series

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in March 12th, 2006 @ 21:16

When I was Muser-age, real science-fiction fans called it s.f. Saying “sci-fi” branded you as hopelessly clueless. That’s probably changed now that it’s gone mainstream.

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kokopelli #2 (a.k.a. Mutt)

in March 12th, 2006 @ 21:57

xD look up Comfort Eagle on yahoo. watch the second one down. yeah, it’s one of my favorite songs. another muser told me about it.

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Otzi

in March 12th, 2006 @ 21:58

172-Caucasian is not a blanket term for White people. Caucasians come specifically from the Caucaus mountains in Europe

I JUST SAW BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!
GooD MoviE
although some of the scenes were a bit graphic…you can imagine.

I thought that Ennis was going to throw himself off the mountian at he end…

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Em

in March 12th, 2006 @ 22:11

sorry, but i find pern exceedingly annoying. good, but annoying.

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flying circus

in March 13th, 2006 @ 07:18

#177 ahhh the shirt was so sad.

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rurokenfan06

in March 13th, 2006 @ 11:34

Hows about in the movie dept. Anyone see Monty Pythons’ Meaning of Life or other movies? Absolutley hilarious!

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flying circus

in March 13th, 2006 @ 12:40

#180 i’ve just seen holy grail and life of brian. but i have the 16 dvd boxed set of all of the episodes of the tv show + two discs of live monty python… so i basically have all of the sketches. which, sometimes, are better than the movies.

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flying circus

in March 13th, 2006 @ 14:44

how about we start a thing like…

currently reading:
currently watching:
currently listening:

like on all those horrid blogs like myspace.
it could be interesting.

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Violetfire

in March 13th, 2006 @ 16:23

Horrid. I agree. And people are so obsessed with it. I mean, they don’t talk about anything important like we do, just lie about themselves and make “friends”.

I am currently reading your most recent post.
I am currently watching my computer screen.
I am currently listening to myself mumble about blog-related stuff.

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Darth Yoda

in March 13th, 2006 @ 18:30

the “thief lord” movie comes out to morrow
its going straight to DVD-always a bad sign

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FantasyFan?!?!

in March 13th, 2006 @ 19:18

sorry! the princess bride ROCKS!!! im not allowed to the sabriel books until im thirteen not long now

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flying circus

in March 14th, 2006 @ 10:45

currently reading: Thud! (Terry Pratchett)
currently watching: Ed Wood, if it wasn’t rated R and the library would let me check it out. grr….
currently listening: English class.

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Phoenix

in March 14th, 2006 @ 12:58

I just read a book called ‘Plainsong’ by some person. It was really good, but really, really strange. Also it was sort of anti-Christian. One of the main charecters is Jesus and they portray him as sort of childlike. However, everyone in the book is childlike, b/c all the adults who were not artists, authors, poets, or mentaly retarted were killed. Still, MG would not like it. I didn’t like the theology, but the literature was GREAT.
I heart Terry Prachett!

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King George the MMMXXLIII

in March 14th, 2006 @ 17:10

My parents wont let me see R rated movies, curse them…okay, don’t curse them, but still. I can’t see Crash, D’Averit. Isn’t that a curse word in Artemis fowl>

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FantasyFan?!?!

in March 14th, 2006 @ 20:24

D’Arvit. i like artemis fowl books

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Zallie

in March 14th, 2006 @ 20:39

Crash was pretty good. We saw it for Lit the other day. It’s a bit confusing sometimes, though, because parts of the movie seem like they should be connected, but they aren’t, if that makes sense.

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Mattathias of Modin

in March 14th, 2006 @ 20:43

Violetfire, Mostly Harmless is a very strange, depressing book. It ties some things up, but it adds new, weirder bits. I still sugest reading it, because it’s brilliant, and…brilliant just about sums it up. Can’t say any more without giving away the story.

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Mattathias of Modin

in March 14th, 2006 @ 21:03

THE SHINS may be my favorite band. See their “So Says I” music video, it’s great. so’s Terry Pratchett. and Neil Gaiman. And many other sich cool people.

VF- All the books that school will eventually ruin for you, read now before you do them in class. That way, you’ll be able to remember them as goof, and if you’ve got a long memory, you can probably get away w/o reading chapter by chapter. That’s what I usually do. Or I read the whole thing the night I get it, and if I like it I read through it again with the rest of the class.

on the subject of Discworld, i can’t decide whether my favorite character is Commander Vimes, or Death

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 14th, 2006 @ 21:23

Phoenix: You’re probably right that I wouldn’t like it. This may sound really terrible, but I try to avoid everything with much to say about theology and religion that’s not written by a Christian. I generally just end up mad and throwing the book across the room and having imaginary arguments with the author in which I pick apart every single idiotic assumption made in the dumb book. I’ve got better things to waste my time on.

Y’all, I haven’t read a book in a really embarrassing amount of time. That makes me feel really stupid. But I am reading one now, and it’s probably the best suspense novel I’ve ever touched. “Obsessed” by Ted Dekker. Ted Dekker is one of my all time favorite authors, and this is his best book ever (according to my aunt). I’m really roped in, I can barely put it down.

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emogrl

in March 14th, 2006 @ 21:38

holly short is my hero (i know its supposed to be heroine but i always just say hero. its ok. im usually a grammar freak too.)

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Otzi

in March 14th, 2006 @ 22:38

Dude, youre talking to a history freak.

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Phoenix

in March 15th, 2006 @ 05:58

MG, let me correct myself. You would have an apoplexy if you read “Plainsong”.
I know how books like that make people feel. Read ‘Queenmaker’ or ‘The Red Tent’ if you want to hear REALLY libelous stuff.

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 10:19

I don’t. That is why I have no intentions of reading “The Da Vinci Code”, or going to see the movie. I will, however, buy the book that debunks all the wild, unfounded claims made in it.

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Mattathias of Modin

in March 15th, 2006 @ 11:30

MG- You need to branch out as far as theology is concerned. There’s plenty of Jewish and Islamic theology that fits in pretty well with the Christian perspective, and it’s cool to say how revalation has been pretty much the same to all three groups, although it’s been interpreted differently. Really, most theology that wasn’t created by modern secular philosophy gone wrong is all right

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Zallie

in March 15th, 2006 @ 12:02

Wow, I’ve never put a book down because of the author’s religion…

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 12:12

It’s not the author’s religion that bothers me, it’s when they start putting religion into their books. I know for a fact that a lot of the books I read are not written by Christians, but for the most part they avoid theology. I have nothing against non-Christian people, it’s unChristian ideas that get me.

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FantasyFan?!?!

in March 15th, 2006 @ 12:32

#198 is right. im not allowed to read the hitchikers guide to the galaxy books until im married. the horrors!!!! i think i’ll just read them during colleghe years or right after.

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Zallie

in March 15th, 2006 @ 13:39

Mmmm, I could say the same about books with Christian ideas worked in, unless they’re really well done, which they usually aren’t. Not my kind of thing, religion.

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 14:45

I understand that. I guess I just don’t notice when someone uses Christian ideas, because they’re completely familiar to me. I kind of like to keep my reading for pleasure and religion separate.

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 14:56

The awesomest thing ever just happened to me. My brother got a million free downloads on some site (all legal. Don’t ask me how, it just happened), and he told me to just write up a list of all the bands I liked, and he would get me all their music. I’ve never had such freedom!!!! I just slap one on the list, completely free from having to worry about whether it’s going to be worth the music or not. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lizzie

in March 15th, 2006 @ 15:30

LUCKY!!! Man, if I had that, I would download so much stuff..
Of course, probably half of the stuff I would want wouldn’t be on there..

I really don’t like to read religious books in general- especially Christian. they just get too overwhelming and sickly and it’s like, go preach somewhere else, please. And I don’t really see how HG2Gal is religious? I guess it could kind of be considered an atheist-religious-thingy since DA was an atheist (I think, is that right, Juliette?), but really, it’s not about religion.. I don’t think it even incorperates religion.. except for the Coming of the Great White Hankerchief..

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Phoenix

in March 15th, 2006 @ 15:36

MG, I read “The DaVinci Code’, and I must say that I enjoyed it. The riddles were very easy, though.
I was really, really mad at some of the things he put in there, though. Like how he said there was ritual sex in the Temple. Just in case anyone believed that, it isn’t true.
Most of his Christian stuff was very far fetched and probably impossible. But the descriptians of Opus Day (or whatever) was more or less accurate, believe it or not. I looked it up after reading the book, and they really do treat women like that.

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Queen Julietaini the F. of K. ; Queenie; WDNT

in March 15th, 2006 @ 16:04

DNA was an atheist. Very good, Lizzie. It’s nice to see you back. HG2G caused some controversy because of its, um, lighthearted and satirical references to religion (“Oolon Colluphid’s blockbusting trilogy of ‘Where God Went Wrong’, ‘Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes’ and ‘Who Is This God Person Anyway?'”, God’s Last Message to His Creation, and the Jatravartids being a few citations from memory). There’s no religion in it whatsoever. For more on DNA and religion, check The Salmon of Doubt, which contains American Atheists’ interview with DNA.

DNA’s excuse for Mostly Harmless being so bleak is that he had a bleak year. The last radio episode, which was published after its creator’s death, is well worth hearing if you were unsatisfied with Mostly Harmless, features Ford Prefect, both Trillians, and Random going to Milliways’, where they meet up with Max Quordlepleen, a lively Hotblack Desiato, and Fenchurch. No “Meet the Meat”, though. No excuse has been made or considered necessary for the book’s or radio series’ utter brilliance.

I haven’t read the DVC, but I heard it was terrible. I never really liked da Vinci. He always was so wrapped up in himself! And bestseller fiction, in my experience, always has little to recommend it. I tend to avoid Christian ideology (C.S. Lewis’s Ch. of N. excluded), but I don’t consider religion when making literary selections. I love Terry Pratchett!

My favorite authors: Terry Pratchett, P.G. Wodehouse, J.R.R. Tolkien (excepting The Silmarillion-it was sophomoric!), J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Keats, William Shakespeare, Burns, Geoffrey Willans, Tamora Pierce, Farley Mowat, Milton Meltzer, Lynn Truss, DNA (duh), Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Ernest Hemingway, Agatha Christie, Emily Post, Peter Freuchen, Saki, Schopenhauer, Thor Heyerdahl…I can’t stand Jane Austen (generally) or anything labeled Bronte. *is pied*

Music: Talking Heads, Powderfinger, Devo, Dr. Demento, Wings, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Captain Sensible, Captain Beefheart, X, the Specials, UB40, Operation Ivy, the Germs, Tom Petty, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, some Ramones…

Movies: Monty Python, Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyasaki, Marilyn Monroe…

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 17:23

I, too, hate novels that preach. If I want to be preached at, I’ll go get a non-fiction book about Christianity. I don’t read the cloying, over done travesties that a lot of Christian authors try to pass as novels. However, there are some Christian authors who are really good. Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti are incredible writers.

Favorite authors: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, L. M. Montgomery, P. G. Wodehouse, George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, Ted Dekker, and Frank Peretti. Bronte girls are pretty good, too, if you don’t mind being depressed.

Must read authors: H. G. Wells, Douglas Adams, J. R. R Tolkien (stop gasping, I’ve read some of his stuff, but not enough), Jonathon Swift, and Mary Shelley. List updated daily, based on recommendations, which are welcome.

Music: Good Lord, don’t get me started. Third Day, Relient K, Switchfoot, Avril Lavigne, Krystal Meyers, Kutless, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, tobyMac, DC Talk, TAIT, Barlow Girl, Superchic[k], Creed, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, Tree63, Jeremy Camp, and Apologetix. Jennifer Knapp is really good, but I don’t have her CD.

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Phoenix

in March 15th, 2006 @ 17:44

Books: THE BELGARIAD, tHG2tG, LOTR, The Mists of Avalon (careful; it has a lot of disgusting paegen rituals in it), Terry Pratchett, Bronte, oops gotta go, more later. That was weird.

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bulletproofmarshmallow

in March 15th, 2006 @ 18:23

my fav authorsare William Sleator, Russel Like, Michael D. Cooper, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Christopher Paolini (I saw him at a eldest convention or something or something like that and he signed my copy of eldest:!: :!:)

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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker

in March 15th, 2006 @ 19:31

love DNA and pratchett. Started reading Saki btw, very good once i checked the date on the book (bit confusing at first though, when i didn’t know what time it was set in). Shakespeare’s good, as is Austen and Tolkein. I actually liked the Silmarillion. I’ve read it three times. Dickens and Twain are both AMAZING (Tale of 2 cities is one of the best books EVER and i loved the pickwick papers, and as for twain, the celebrated jumping frog was my fav short story for ages when i was little and i still love it, and of course there’s tom sawyer and huck finn, and conneticut yankee in king arthur’s court is also one of my favs) Wodehouse is incredibly funny. Rowling’s pretty good too, Anne Mccaffrey’s good. The Belgariad rocks (what i’ve read of it *hides in the shame of not having finished the series*) Hmmm…let’s see…I like L’Engle too, she’s good. And of course some Muse geniuses like Shulman and Gonick Those cat books are good (w/Qwill and all-i think it was em who’d read those too, i dunno. Somebody knows about them anyway. Somebody out there has heard of their existence! woohoo! Ok i’m exaggerating here. Extremely. Oh yes.) Dunno who they’re by. Oh, i like Verne too (Me ♥ 20,000 leagues especially) Funke is really good. I have both the Inkhearts as well as Thief Lord. I love Kipling, especially Stalky+Co. Tamora Pierce is pretty good, what i’ve read of her. C.S. Lewis is good too…the Narnia stuff is good, and i sort of liked the Perelandra series too…not nearly as much though. Pullman was amazing on Golden Compass but then he got into the whole religious thiing and the trilogy went pfffft. The golden compass is really the only one worth reading. But it is amazingly good. Louis Sachar’s really good. Oh and forester-the hornblower series. Yes, all hail the britishness!!! For the brit navy stuff, O’brian’s alright too if you don’t mind long rants about the technical stuff. Skipping to a completely different genre, Alexandre Dumas is a total frood. Oh and whoever wrote Shadow Divers is AWESOME.

Whew. Long rant. But here come the much shorter list of writers i dislike…

Ok sorry to say this MG, but L.M. Montgomery is on this list. Anne of Green Gables is good, but the rest of the series aren’t really in my opinion. Paolini is decent, but not good enough to get published. I know people better than he is that haven’t been able to. Just cuz his parents own a company or whatever…Anyway, he’s not bad, but yeah. Anybody that writes those “teenage issues” books are my worst nightmares…has anybody read that “ttyl” book? I flipped through it for five minutes and that was enough to inspire bitter hatred. Dunno who wrote it though, and frankly i don’t care, just as long as they don’t write anything like that again. *shudder* The Star Wars books aren’t really that good, that story is much better as a movie, but i have nothing against the authors for it cuz it wasn’t really their fault. It was written as a movie. Well, i suppose there are plenty of second-rate authors around, and i’m not gonna go through every less-than-incredible book i’ve ever read, so i’ll just stop there.

Movies-Monty python rocks, as does the princess bride, national treasure, POTC, Lotr, Johnny English, Star Wars, etc, etc. Comedy or fantasy. Or some sci-fi. I’m not really in to horror that much. Oh, and the A&E Pride+Prejudice was incredible. Go. Watch. It. Now. Gone with the wind is also good, and Casablanca. And Zorro! The 1940 one. With tyrone power. And robin hood and capt. blood w/errol flynn. As for recent movies, i haven’t seen many this year, but good night+good luck was really good.

Music-Mostly old stuff, either jazz or classic rock or a combination of the two. I like Chuck Berry, the Who, The Beatles, BNL, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Dylan is hoopy, although he can’t sing to save his life, Johnny Cash, and a load of individual songs that i like without actually liking the group/person.

Right that was an amazingly long post. Wow. I love to rant…lol

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Darth Yoda

in March 15th, 2006 @ 19:44

I am now reading my first sentance my Terry Prachet: Rats!

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Darth Yoda

in March 15th, 2006 @ 19:45

Whoa that went on wicked fast!

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emogrl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 21:14

hmm i shall make some lists also…

books tithe; valiant; anything by eoin colfer; hp…i wish i had more time to read nowadays, but w/ the ****load of homework i get every night, theres almost nvr time

movies memoirs of a geisha; underworld evolution; van helsing; rose red; corpse bride; chronicles of narnia…a lot i just cant think of…

musik (aka the list that shall nvr end) here we go…
mcr, A7F, linkin park, white stripes, fall out boy, yellowcard, modest mouse, nirvana, evanescence, flyleaf, nickelback, seether, switchfoot, cirque du soliel soundtracks, good charlotte, death cab for cutie, coldplay…

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Zallie

in March 15th, 2006 @ 21:22

Music: Squeeze, They Might Be Giants, Anna Nalick, Coldplay, Josh Groban, Harry and the Potters, The Beatles, Enya, O-Zone, Rufus Wainwright, Avenue Q

Movies: The Count of Monte Cristo, Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, Rat Race, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sting, Chocolat, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, House of Flying Daggers, Moulin Rouge!, LotR, Syriana, Brokeback Mountain, Billy Elliot, Serenity, A Room With A View, Rafifi, Crash, Sense and Sensibility

Books: Neverwhere, Lirael, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Speak, The Golden Compass, Shade’s Children, Across the Wall, Stardust, Sandman, Sally Lockhart Trilogy, The Count of Monte Cristo, Vorgosigan Saga, Pearls of Lutra, Theatre Shoes, Abarat, Hope Was Here, Crestomanci Chronicles, The Coffin Quilt, The Skies of Pern

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MontgomeryGurl

in March 15th, 2006 @ 22:38

emogrl!!!!!!!!! Switchfoot was on your music list!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re now my official best friend forever.

Ebeth, I hate you and I’m never speaking to you again.

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Violetfire

in March 16th, 2006 @ 15:57

Whoa! Don’t be mean to Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker!

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Ebeth The Former But Recently Rehabilitated Lurker

in March 16th, 2006 @ 16:14

Yeah! *sulks* Thank you VF *gives VF virtual choklit* *sticks tongue out at MG*

lol jk

214-yeah, eoin colfer is good. Except for artemis fowl #3

215-*gasp* a tree grows in brooklyn! I remember that…that was good. Depressing, but good.

Btw, could somebody remind me why i’ve been rehabilitated? I wasn’t aware that lurking was really an issue…ah well. Whatever works.

not that i have any time to lurk nowadays, what with the teachers looking at the calendars, gasping in horror, and throwing work at us trying to get us to learn something by the end of the year. So far they’ve been mostly unsuccessful.

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Violetfire

in March 16th, 2006 @ 19:51

That’s okay, it happens to me too, only science, social studies, and all the electives are way too easy and also boring.

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in March 17th, 2006 @ 14:43

Do you realize that people are making this same list on the polling place? I don’t really have favorite authors so much as I have favorite books. It doesn’t matter who the author is as long as the book is good, right? If HG2G singled out Christianity and poked fun at it, I probably would never speak to it again. But thing is, it makes fun of pretty much everything in the universe, so I don’t mind. Unfotunately, my reading of the Hitchhiker’s Gude to the Galaxy coincided with our book club delving into world view analysis. *groan* Fotunately, HG2G wasn’t a school asignment. We figured DNA was nialistic. Or maybe agnostic. Okay, enough of that. I like the Newsboys. And Third Day. Mostly, I just listen to whatever is on the radio. Be it Phsyco Killer or be it Radar Love. Has anyone heard of the band Slack Tone? They play instrumental beach. As for movies… Princess Bride, of course. I’ve only watched about a million times. Veggie Tales! Them Back to the Future ones. Kung Pow. LOTRs, but not as much as the books. I like Groundhog day. It wasn’t flamablamablous, but it wasn’t awful either. One of those lazy afternoon movies that you don’t have to get to involved in. And Monty Python. Duh. Can we talk about TV shows on here too, or is that against the rules?

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in March 17th, 2006 @ 14:51

If the rules forbade changing the topic of a thread, we’d all be in big trouble. Talk about TV shows, with the GAPA’s blessing.

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Violetfire

in March 18th, 2006 @ 18:59

Ooh, ooh, bless me too, Bobby!

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bluemorpho'sghost

in March 20th, 2006 @ 16:53

DO NOT WATCH:
Excalibur
Joan of Arc
You’ve Got Mail
Secret Agent Cody Banks

at least if youre like me, which u probly arent.

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bluemorpho'sghost

in March 20th, 2006 @ 16:55

DO NOT READ:
The Bumblebee Flies Again or something like that
Educating Caroline
Wait for My by Moonlight

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KillerQueen

in March 23rd, 2006 @ 15:29

#215 Zallie!!!!!!!!1
Dude you rock!!!!! I love the Beatles and Josh Groban!!!!! Oh wow, this is rare!!!!! (Not to say that nobody else likes them) LIke all of my friends love Joshy and the Fab Four…
Oh wow I’m VERY HAPPY INDEED!!!!!
And They Might Be Giants rockk ttoo…I once incorporated “The Statue Got Me High” in a speech for my English class…It was like last week, actually.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY JOHNNY AND GEORGIE AND MACCA AND RINGO AND JOSHY ROCK THE EARTH!!!!!!!!

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KillerQueen

in March 23rd, 2006 @ 16:06

OK, I don’t want anyone to feel left out, SO!
All you people who love classic rock and alternative music rock!!
My Fav…:
MUSIC: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Eagles, Grateful Dead, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, Ani Difranco, The Doors, Deep Purple, Heart, John Lennon, Josh Groban, Led Zeppelin, Lynryd Skynryd, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Paul McCartney, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, U2, The Who, Wings, Chuck Berry, Spinal Tap, The Mammals, David Olney, Weird Al Yankovic, They Might Be Giants….Oh God there might be more but I’m drawing a bit of a blank.

MOVIES: UHF, Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, The Gods Must Be Crazy (1and 2), Give My Regards To Broadstreet, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Contact, Mars Attacks, Harold and Maude, Saved!, The Birdcage, My Blue Heaven, Donnie Darko, October Sky, Apollo 13, Chicago, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Shanghi Knights, I &heart Huckabees, The Producers, The Tuxedo, The Medallion, A Hard Day’s Night, Magical Mystery Tour, Johnny Dangerously, Rat Race, Forrest Gump, Patch Adams, School of Rock, Pink Panther, National Treasure, The Demented Cartoon Movie (technically a flash video…)….Again, there are probably a ton more I’m forgetting.

TV SERIES: Seinfeld, Home To Roost, Red Dwarf, The Red Green Show, Keeping Up Appearances, Barbara, Waiting For God, As Time Goes By, My Hero, The Weird Al Show…Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that’s all I can remember.

BOOKS (TONS!!): Harry Potter series (6), City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, The Walrus Was Ringo, I Me Mine, Comm Check, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Better Than Life, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘trilogy’ (5…hehe…), The Golden Compass, October Sky, Sky of Stone, A Series of Unforunate Events (12), Attack of the Smart Pies (how could I forget??), High Calling, John Lennon: Unseen Archives, PeaceJam, Witch Child, Sorceress, ALL of the Calvin and Hobbes collections, I Touch the Future, The Beatles Book of Lists, Animal Speak, Julie, Julie of the Wolves, Julie’s Wolf Pack, Jonathon Livingstons Seagull, Chronicals of Chrestomanci, 50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed To Know, The Sight….Ugh I’m remebering all of them now.

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS “I WANT TO BREAK FREE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOHN DEACON OF QUEEN WROTE IT!!!!!!! And the music video is really funny. But that’s besde the point.
What IS the point?? Hm, I dunno. On this thread, probably not talking about Queen….BUT GAPA COULD EASILY CHANGE THAT….*NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK HOWEVER THAT SKETCH GOES* “SAY NO MORE!”

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Violetfire

in March 24th, 2006 @ 14:28

My mom listens to U2 a lot. And Weird Al is awesome.
Fishheads, Fishheads, roly-poly fishheads,
Fishheads, Fishheads, eat ’em up, yum!

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yesterday's_kinked_moose

in March 25th, 2006 @ 17:07

Reading: the MuseBlog. Duh.

Listening: To the television.

Watching: I just finished You’ve Got Mail (love that movie!) and now While you were Sleeping is on. What is this, romantic comedy day or something. I’m going to get off the couch.

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KillerQueen

in March 29th, 2006 @ 15:15

FISH HEADS IS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFGLOL!!!!!!!!!! I showed it to my friend Chev llike 3 years ago and it still haunts her to this day!!!!!

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sweet melpomene (formerly known as frankenfaerie)

in April 2nd, 2006 @ 12:27

reading: asimov’s foundation books. and re-reading some nancy drew books. isn’t she spiffy? but emma roberts has totally ruined her. yes, she will, in fact, play nancy drew in some movie about “the mystery of hollywood hills.” i do not recally a book by that name. at least not one of the original 56. besides, e.r. is not an 18-year-olde titan-haired sleuth.

watching: the addams family and the addams family values. “are they made from real girl scouts?”

listening to: at the moment, birdhouse in your soul. “i’m your only friend i’m not your only friend but i’m a little glowing friend but really i’m not actually your friend but i am” i can almost do the whole dance in the video.

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book_addict

in April 2nd, 2006 @ 12:43

BOOKS 2 READ

Chu Ju’s house- Gloria Whelan
Burying the sun- Gloria Whelan
The Light of the Oracle- Victoria Hanley
Keeping You a Secret- Julie Anne Peters
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf- Sonya Hartnett
Cart and Cwidder- Dianna Wynne Jones
Wild Magic- Tamora Pierce
Wolf Speaker- Tamora Pierce
The Realms of the Gods- Tamora Pierce
My Sister’s Keeper- Jodi Picoult
Firebirds- edited by Sharyn November.
Thursday’s Child- Sonya Hartnett
Search of the Moon King’s Daughter- Linda Holeman
Glory- Jodi Lynn
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci I- Dianna Wynne Jones
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci II- Dianna Wynne Jones
Tree by Leaf- Cynthia Voigt
Born Blue- Han Nolan
Objects in Mirror- Ronder Thomas Young
Sign of the Raven- Julie Hearn
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl- Joyce Carol Oates
Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
Undine- Penni Russon
Luna- Julie Anne Peters
Homeless Bird- Gloria Whelan
Simon Says- Elaine Marie Alphin
Speak- Laurie Halse Anderson
Drowned Ammet- Dianna Wynne Jones
The Spellcoats- Dianna Wynne Jones
The Crown of Dalemark- Dianna Wynne Jones
Freaky Green Eyes- Joyce Carol Oates

YAY there you go.

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sweet melpomene (formerly known as frankenfaerie)

in April 3rd, 2006 @ 18:40

Politically Correct Bedtime Stores: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times
By James Finn Garner

it’s exactly what it sounds like

From “Snow White:”

“Once there was a young princess who was not at all unpleasant to look at and had a temperament that many found to be more pleasant than most other people’s. Her nickname was Snow White, a indicative of the discriminatory notions of associating pleasand or attractive qualities with light, and unpleasand or unattractive qualities with darkness. Thus, at an early age, Snow White was an unwitting if fortunate target for this type of colorist thinking.”

bloody brilliant.

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Em

in April 16th, 2006 @ 21:24

book addict, you forgot emperor mage.

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Axa

in April 16th, 2006 @ 23:46

Oooooh I’m going to get that Melpomene.

I’m listening to an excerpt of Gekkou ( Moonlight ) from the cd Fan Club by Asian Kung Fu Generation! ALRIGHT!
The beginning is so pretty, Ijichi does the piano bit from Claire de Lune.

♥

Oh, and reading Starlight, the newest Warriors book. -_- They’re so horrible these days, I don’t know why I bother.

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â™¥ shriya flamablamablous jeffica â™¥

in April 30th, 2006 @ 17:00

reading: The Number Devil, Girls In Pants, Inkheart
listening: stick with you *gag* *barf* *dies* on the radio THANK GOD it finished while i was typing
watching: the computer screen….duuh

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â™¥ shriya flamablamablous jeffica â™¥

in April 30th, 2006 @ 17:00

reading: The Number Devil, Girls In Pants, Inkheart
listening: stick with you *gag* *barf* *dies* on the radio THANK GOD it finished while i was typing
watching: the computer screen….duuh

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bulletproofmarshmallow

in June 3rd, 2006 @ 08:28

(reply to 132)
AC/DC rocks!

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Animalfairy

in August 25th, 2006 @ 11:13

ANYBODY heard of ‘Seabiscuit’? It’s a movie about a horse thats treated badly for most of its life, than shown love. It’s a racehorse movie, and REALLY GOOD!!!

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bluemorpho'sghost

in November 1st, 2006 @ 21:09

GOOD ARTHURIAN LITERATURE:
The Mists of Avalon — Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Once and Future King — T.H. White
The Dragon’s Son — ???
The Book of Mordred — Vivian Vande Velde

ummm, i think thats it . . .

BAD ARTHURIAN LITERATURE:
The original on by Thomas Malory
The Winter Prince — Elizabeth . . . Wein??
there is more. i know there is i just dont remember it. erm awkward.

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